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Ministry of Education (Myanmar)

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Formed
  
1950

Headquarters
  
Naypyidaw, Myanmar

Jurisdiction
  
Myanmar

Website
  
www.moe.gov.mm

Ministry of Education (Myanmar)

Minister responsible
  
Myo Thein Gyi, Minister

Child agencies
  
Department of Higher Education Department of Basic Education Department of Human Resources and Educational Planning Department of Teachers Education and Training Department of Myanmar Educational Research Department of Myanmar Language and Linguistics Department of Myanmar Examinations

The Ministry of Education (Burmese: ပညာရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန, [pjìɲàjé wʊ̀ɴdʑí tʰàna]; abbreviated MOE) is the Myanmar government agency responsible for education in Myanmar.

Contents

Departmental bodies

  • The Minister's Office
  • Department of Higher Education အဆင့်မြင့်ပညာဦးစီးဌာန
  • Department of Teacher Training ဆရာအတတ်ပညာနှင့်လေ့ကျင့်ရေးဦးစီးဌာန
  • Department of Human Resources and Educational Planning လူ့စွမ်းအားအရင်းအမြစ်နှင့် ပညာရေးစီမံကိန်းဦးစီးဌာန
  • Department of Basic Education အခြေခံပညာဦးစီးဌာန
  • Myanmar Language Commission မြန်မာစာအဖွဲ့
  • Department of Myanmar Examinations မြန်မာနိုင်ငံစာစစ်ဦးစီးဌာန
  • Department of Myanmar Education Research Bureau (MERB) ပညာရေးသုသေတနအဖွဲ့ဦးစီးဌာန

    • There are seven departments under the Ministry of Education:

    1. Administration staff
    2. Department of Higher Education (အဆင့်မြင့်ပညာဦးစီးဌာန)
    3. Department of Basic Education (အခြေခံပညာဦးစီးဌာန)
    4. Department of Myanmar Language Commission (မြန်မာစာအဖွဲ့)
    5. Department of Myanmar Board of Examinations (မြန်မာနိုင်ငံစာစစ်)
    6. Myanmar Educational Research Bureau (MERB) (ပညာရေးသုသေတန)

    The Office Staff of the Ministry of Education is responsible to the Deputy Ministers and the Minister. They supervise the implementation of educational programmes, set the educational policies, are responsible for fiscal planning within the ministry and department personnel and administration of the ministry.

    List of ministers

  • Ba Maw (1934–1937)
  • U Razak (1947)
  • Htoon Aung Kyaw
  • U Win
  • Hla Min
  • Maung Gyi
  • U Kar (1958-1960)
  • Dr. Nyi Nyi
  • Col. Hla Han
  • Col. Dr. Pe Thein
  • Pan Aung
  • Than Aung (1997-2004)
  • Dr Chan Nyein (2004-2011)
  • Dr Mya Aye (minister) (2011-2013)
  • Dr Khin San Yee (2014–30 March 2016)
  • Aung San Suu Kyi (30 March 2016 – 6 April 2016)
  • Dr Myo Thein Gyi (6 April 2016- )

    • References

    Ministry of Education (Myanmar) Wikipedia
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